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Tim Chamberlain 🧭

@waymarks.bsky.social

Historian, interested in Exploration & Empire. PhD from Birkbeck College, University of London. FRGS. https://tim-chamberlain.owlstown.net/

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Past and Present@pastpresentsoc.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New on advance access: "Tibetan Gift-Giving, British Indifference, and the Erasure of Provenance in Colonial India" by @tibetcurator.bsky.social (@uomsalc.bsky.social) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

TIBETAN GIFT-GIVING, BRITISH INDIFFERENCE, AND THE ERASURE OF PROVENANCE IN COLONIAL INDIA*

Abstract. In 1913, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet dispatched a lavish diplomatic gift to the viceroy of India. However, upon its arrival the colonial a

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Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out @waymarks.bsky.social's review of @josephaseeley.bsky.social's "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria," published in 2024 by @cornellupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Chamberlain on Seeley, 'Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria' | H-Net

Seeley, Joseph. Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria. : Cornell University Press, 2024. 210 pp. $23.95 (paper), ISBN 9781501777387. Reviewed by Tim Chamber...

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Joseph Seeley@josephaseeley.bsky.social · last yr.

"Border of Water and Ice is a fascinating, richly researched, and accessibly recounted history that will appeal to a wide range of scholars variously interested in empires, environments, borderlands, and area studies" Thank you @waymarks.bsky.social for the close reading!

Daniella M.@farsouthhistory.bsky.social · last yr.

Check out @waymarks.bsky.social's review of @josephaseeley.bsky.social's "Border of Water and Ice: The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria," published in 2024 by @cornellupress.bsky.social; review now available @hnetreviews.bsky.social networks.h-net.org/group/review...

Mark Horrell@markhorrell.bsky.social · last yr.

🌟 New blog post ✍️ There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves ⛏️🗻 One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Ankit Babu Adhikari, which I read recently 📚 www.markhorrell.com/blog/2025/12...

12 inspiring stories about the lives of Sherpa mountaineers

There have been many books about Sherpa mountaineers over the years, but few have been written from the perspective of Sherpas themselves. One that comes close is Sherpa by Pradeep Bashyal and Anki…

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Andrew Szalay@andrewszalay.bsky.social · last yr.

Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Chomolungma 50 years ago this week. Jenny Hall recounts this milestone and considers why she isn't more celebrated: theconversation.com/fifty-years-...

Fifty years ago, Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest – why do so few people know her story?

Despite the extraordinary feats of Tabei and many other adventurous women, sexism and misogyny in mountaineering have persisted for decades.

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Mikko Toivanen@mtoiv.bsky.social · last yr.

Book is happening – we've got a cover! 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka' coming later this year from Leiden University Press!

Cover of my book 'Empire, Tourism, and Colonial Knowledge', with an image of a tourist party at the top of the Borobudur temple complex on Java in the 1860s.
Tim Chamberlain 🧭@waymarks.bsky.social · last yr.

'Kumano: Journey of a Maverick Scholar' | Japanology Plus: "Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the environments that inspired his work." www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/...

Kumano: Journey of a Maverick Scholar - Japanology Plus | NHK WORLD-JAPAN

*First broadcast on July 18, 2024. Scholar Minakata Kumagusu made contributions to biology, folklore and other fields. He laid the foundation for environmental conservation in Japan. We explore the en...

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NHM Library and Archives@nhmlibraryarchives.bsky.social · last yr.

Our followers may be aware of the recent passing of Richard Fortey, a great palaeontologist and user of the Museum’s Library and Archives. A brilliant science communicator with a penchant for fungi and fungus gnats, his Dry Store Room No.1 was a classic. To us and many others, Richard was too.

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High Peaks Pure Earth@hpeaks.bsky.social · last yr.

For the first time, we've compiled a Spring #TibetReadingList with over 25 titles available now for people of all ages! Enjoy perusing the list and let us know what you're reading at the moment 📚 highpeakspureearth.com/high-peaks-p...

High Peaks Pure Earth Spring 2025 Tibet Reading List

High Peaks Pure Earth for the first time presents a Spring Tibet Reading List! This is the first Tibet Reading List to follow up the (end of) Summer 2024 Tibet Reading List and includes over 25 mor…

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Christian Drury@cjdrury.bsky.social · last yr.

Very excited to have my first article published! It's about why British mountaineers travelled to Norway in the nineteenth century and the transnational networks they formed. Open access in Studies in Travel Writing here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🏔️

William Cecil Slingsby and Elizabeth Le Blond in Norway: transnational mountaineering, modernity and temporality, 1870–1910

In both William Cecil Slingsby’s Norway. The Northern Playground (1904) and Elizabeth Le Blond’s Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (1908), Norway is presented as an alternative destina...

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Tim Chamberlain 🧭@waymarks.bsky.social · last yr.

CFP Edited Collection: "Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm" via H-HistGeog: networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🗃️

CFP Edited Collection: Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm | H-Net

Imagining Explorers: From National Narratives to Public History, Explorers and Exploration in the Public Realm (edited collection)

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Tim Chamberlain 🧭@waymarks.bsky.social · last yr.

"Everest through the lens" - another chance to see the exhibition marking the centenary of the first Everest expeditions in the 1920s @rgsibg.bsky.social (20 Jan 2025 - 15 Apr 2025, Monday-Friday: 10.00am-5.00pm, free entry) www.rgs.org/events/upcom... [1/2]

Everest through the lens - RGS

Everest through the lens is back. Explore how John Noel's films shaped the public's imagination of Everest, and obscured the role of local intermediaries.

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